Paper Mario animations

[E-Man]

Progress with the sketches was pretty much on and off since I had to practice Sketchasaurus' drawing style to the best of my ability (as well as relieve some stress by playing Nintendo's video games). In the end, I think I did a good job.



I think I have a pretty good system worked out as long as Sketchasarus is cool with it. Basically, I'll start off with a relatively tight sketch to get the basic idea and proportions down. Then, I'll make a sloppy, loose sketch and make a copy of that sketch to refine. What do you think?

Anyway, the sketches with checks on them are the ones I'll definitely end up inking. I understand that some of the ones I plan on using are the broken sketch ones, but I honestly don't think that's too much of a problem as long as I ink in a way that allows for more complete curves. Besides, the rest of the sketches are done in the new style, so it more or less evens out in my opinion. Please forgive me if this upsets you guys in any way. By the way, I'm thinking of giving Luigi a Poltergust 3000 or 5000 to use. Of course, I only want to start on this once I'm not so sick since I need to think clearly to figure out how I'm going to make it work out properly.



Now then, like I promised in another thread, allow me to touch upon my original crossover idea with the Mario & Luigi games. See, the idea was going to be a one-shot short (whether or not it is in parts was something I could not decide) where Professor E. Gadd (or another scientist character) opens a portal to the existence where Mario & Luigi live. It's a little similar to what it's like in Paper Jam, but it's more like the other way around because the M&L characters are visiting the paper world first. The big difference is that unlike the game, the paper counterparts don't exactly team up with their M&L versions. Instead, the M&L characters have a lot more energy and have a tendency to goof around and annoy the main paper characters. It's even worse for the main paper characters when their M&L counterparts win over pretty much everyone in the paper world. Overall, the short shows off the strengths and weaknesses of each version of the characters and they do team up in the end to take out some kind of problem. Unlike the Koopa Bros. short, though, I never put a large amount of thought into it because I consider this a project I'll tackle much later down the road. The biggest hurdle is to make the Mario & Luigi part of the short work effectively. Since I'm honestly not up for using the sprites that already exist (not only does it go against my policy of doing everything from the ground up, but also I don't want it to seem like a typical Mario fan project at first glance considering that ripped Mario & Luigi sprites are used in pretty much everything), my thought is to attempt to make sprites in my "reimagining" of the style. With that said, I want to eventually develop that style by creating a simple Goomba sheet to test it on. Since I'm in no rush to do that project, I'll focus on putting together Luigi and the Koopa characters first.